"One of the lawyers we spoke to said they wanted to coin the right to burial as a new human right. Well acquainted with Zeinhom [i.e., the Cairo morgue], I didn’t need him to explain what he meant by this. I had been here before, and seen this before, only now I was being confronted by a magnitude of death I could not have imagined. This time it was members of the Muslim Brotherhood who had to face Zeinhom, before that it was families of Copts killed in the Maspero massacre, or of revolutionaries or torture victims spat out from police stations, or even of unfortunate victims of car accidents. Zeinhom does not discriminate, it abuses and defiles all equally, it is a perfect metaphor for the persistence of the security regime and a state that will go as far as to desecrate the dead to protect its stranglehold on power."
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 03:43:04 +0000
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